Clinical Ethics Forum: Assisted Suicide - Where will we be in 2021?
Death wishes and suicidality are as much the focus of the debate on physician-assisted suicide in Germany as self-determination and responsibility at the end of life. On February 26, 2020 - shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic defined last year - the ban on "businesslike promotion of suicide" (§217 of the German Criminal Code) was declared unconstitutional in a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court. Since the beginning of this ... Continued